Bayston Leads Midget Power Rankings as POWRi Midget Week Fires Off

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 8, 2016) – Indiana Midget Week resulted in a shakeup of the www.midgetmadness.com Midget Power Rankings with Spencer Bayston moving to the top of the charts.

With POWRi’s Illinois Midget Week firing off tonight at “Little Belleville”, Lafayette, Indiana’s Bayston holds a 24-point advantage over Keith Kunz Racing stablemate Tanner Thorson for the number one ranking.

Bayston posted four top-five runs during USAC’s Midget Week including his first series triumph to move to the top ranking.

Bryan Clauson captured the Indiana Midget Week title to climb to third in the Midget Power Rankings with Zach Daum falling out of the lead to fourth after a rough week in Indiana.

Rico Abreu took in all of Indiana Midget Week to climb back up to fifth, giving Keith Kunz Racing three drivers among the top five. Another pair of Kunz drivers are among the top ten as well with Christopher Bell jumping to eighth and Carson Macedo holding on to tenth.

Others in the current top ten include Tyler Thomas in sixth, Andrew Felker in seventh and Justin Peck in ninth.

Along with POWRi’s Illinois Midget Week that runs for five nights through Sunday, other Midget action this week includes a pair of ARDC events in Pennsylvania on Friday and Sunday with the Missouri’s All Star Midgets, BCRA and WMRA all in action on Saturday.

A part of the recurring “The Wheatley Chronicles” series of articles on www.sprintcarmania.com, the Open Wheel Power Rankings are determined by cumulative points based on a sliding scale dependent upon car count at Sprint Car and Midget events across all sanctions and non-sanctions throughout North America.

The Wheatley Chronicles brings insight and highlights from all variety of racing series throughout the nation in 2016 and beyond along with the Open Wheel Power Rankings on a regular basis. Please send any comments, questions or advertising inquiries regarding The Wheatley Chronicles at www.sprintcarmania.com to Lonnie Wheatley at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.